The Rate of Increase of Short Telomeres Predicts Longevity in Mammals

Cell Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 732-737

  Vera, Elsa ^a   Bernardes de Jesus, Bruno ^a   Foronda, Miguel ^a   Flores, Juana M ^b   Blasco, Maria A ^a  

^a Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84868116500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.08.023     Document Type: Article

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